trén

• IPA^(key): [ˈtreːn]
• Rhymes: -eːn

From tré (“lousy, crappy, crummy, poor”, slang) +‎ -n (case suffix).

trén

1. superessive singular of tré

From tré +‎ -n (adverb-forming suffix).

trén (comparative trébben, superlative legtrébben)

1. (slang) lousily, crappily, crummily, poorly

   Synonyms: ócskán, silányul

Borrowed from Austrian German Train^(de), from French train, from French traîner, from Late Latin *tragīnāre, from Latin trahere.^[1]

trén (plural trének)

1. (military, dated) train of transport, baggage train, wagon train

   Synonyms: vonatcsapat, vonatosztály, poggyászvonat, szállítóoszlop, hadtáp

2. (military, dated) reserves, provision, supplies (equipment, transport, and/or other services for the army)

   Synonyms: hadtáp, utánpótlás

3. (military, dated) a member of the army service corps

• traktál^[1]

• trén in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

trén

1. inflection of tré:
   1. definite nominative plural
   2. definite accusative plural

From Proto-Celtic *trexsnos (compare Primitive Irish ᚈᚈᚏᚓᚅᚐᚂᚒᚌᚑᚄ (ttrenalugos), ᚈᚏᚓᚅᚐᚌᚒᚄᚒ (trenagusu)), with comparative *trexsais (compare Middle Welsh trech (“stronger”); Breton trec'h (“victory”); Cornish trygh (“victorious”)); Gaulish Trexius, Trexa, Trenus), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”) (Old Norse þróttr (“strength”)).

• IPA^(key): /tʲrʲeːn/

trén m (genitive tréuin, tríuin)

1. strong man

trén (equative tressithir, comparative tressa, superlative tressam)

1. strong
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91^b12

     Trén ⁊ mór in chairdine do·rigni⟨s⟩ friu hi tossuch ⁊ cot⟨a⟩·ascrais íarum.

     Strong and great (was) the covenant you sg had made with them at first and you annulled it afterwards.

Usually:

In the Würzburg glosses:

As a noun meaning "strong man":

• treise f (“strength, vigour, power”)

• Irish: tréan
• Manx: trean
• Scottish Gaelic: treun

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, pages 224, 235; reprinted 2017

From French train

• IPA^(key): /trẽ/

trén m (plural tréns)

1. train (railway vehicle)